Skinny Fat: Why Slim Indians Face a Hidden Diabetes Risk

If your weighing scale says you are fine and your BMI sits in the "normal" band, you might assume you have nothing to worry about.

The idea is finally moving from research journals into national policy.

In the medical literature this condition travels under several names — normal-weight obesity, metabolically obese normal weight, and the vivid acronym TOFI, "thin outside, fat insi

Visceral fat is not a passive storage depot.

The thin-fat phenotype is not unique to India, but South Asians appear genetically primed for it.